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From: The Spectator
Date: 20050312
Author:Weyer, Martin Vander

Martin Vender Weyer unravels the tale of an African oil venture which has startled the stock market

White Nile is certainly a name to conjure with. It recalls Alan Moorehead's epic account of the adventures of Livingstone, Stanley and Gordon of Khartoum; readers who have spotted it on the business pages these past few weeks may have been transported back to the childhood excitement of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. The White Nile story now buzzing round the City has all the ingredients of a Victorian classic, including a merchant adventurer who was once a sporting hero, an ...

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